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Foreign desk: Palestine Statehood = Cruel Fiction
The historical past of Palestinian terrorism doesn’t by itself make “subsequent recognition of statehood impossible,” observes Philip Cunliffe at Compact, however the actual query is “what is it that is being recognized?”
We can’t ignore the “brute fact that there is no independent Palestine to recognize.” Gaza “has been reduced to ruins” whereas the “West Bank is honeycombed with Israeli settlements.”
Hamas, the putative energy in Gaza, is “cowering in tunnels.” Offering “the mirage of statehood” beneath these circumstances is “worse than a mistake; it is to trade in illusions.”
While the Palestinian diplomatic class will “enjoy the hospitality at international conferences,” statehood “will do nothing for ordinary Palestinians.”
Violence that erects fictional states “is not only morally reprehensible but also politically futile.”
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Pollsters: Democrats Need New Agenda ASAP
Wall Journal Journal polling exhibits “Trump’s approval rating is 6 points underwater,” and Kaiser Family Foundation surveys discover “nearly two-thirds (63 percent) hold an unfavorable view” of the president’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Yet congressional Democrats loudly assailed “large-scale cuts to social and healthcare programs without offering a coherent agenda or alternative,” lament Douglas Schoen & Carly Cooperman at The Hill.
“To have any chance of taking at least one chamber of Congress, Democrats need a new agenda” that addresses “immigration, the economy, education, and energy policy.”
Remember: “The centrist, forward-looking agenda put forward by former President Bill Clinton pulled the party out of the political wilderness.”
An identical “middle-of-the-road agenda” can “save Democrats today.”
From the best: Zohran’s Coddled Lefty Base
Zohran Mamdani’s “dreams of turning America’s capitalist engine into a national beacon of entitlement” are promoting as a result of “New York is now a city with hundreds of thousands of little Zohran Mamdanis,” fumes Tablet’s Armin Rosen.
While “New York has gotten more right-wing” lately, “the city’s much more numerous liberals have polarized in the other direction.”
And a lot of Mamdani’s assist comes from “young and often childless transplanted degree holders living off public or family subsidies,” who’re both “insulated from the consequences of urban decline” or assume leftism is the answer.
“Mamdani’s impending victory” is the consequence “of the slow death of New York’s pragmatic and productive middle class” and the rise of a new class of metropolis dwellers who allow “an activist government” to experiment on society.
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Space beat: Wonders of a Nuclear Moon Base
As NASA’s new interim head, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy simply “directed the agency to put a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by decade’s end,” cheers Ross Andersen at The Atlantic.
“This is not a lark. If humanity means to establish a permanent settlement on the moon, nuclear power will almost certainly be essential to its operation. And a lunar base may well be the most wondrous achievement in space exploration that people reading this will see during their lifetime.”
Just think about: “an astronomer at a lunar base,” peering out “from a porthole, seeing the Earth shining in the sky,” whereas a crater-sized radio dish on the opposite facet — “a giant ear” — listens for “messages from other Earths” and past.
Conservative: Academia’s Smug Lawlessness
“American universities act with impunity” in “breaking the law” to have interaction in “race-based hiring,” experiences John Sailer at City Journal.
It’s an “open secret” that colleges “engage in preferential treatment” in hiring, similar to “prioritizing candidates” from “underrepresented groups.”
A current memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi “singles out the use of ‘unlawful proxies’ ” in hiring, or “workarounds” similar to “diversity statements” that “advantage applicants” who “discuss experiences intrinsically tied to protected characteristics.”
Universities have “long used such criteria as racial and ideological proxies in faculty hiring,” and thereby “have developed ready-made career paths for scholars who share a commitment to social justice.”
Bondi’s steering, correctly enforced, will create a “massive reckoning” for American universities that proceed to violate a “longstanding principle” of anti-discrimination law.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
